Sentenced: Murder Charge Filed In Death Of 4YO Lima Girl

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A child is dead and a person is in custody after an incident occurred in Lima on Monday.

The Lima Police Department responded to a call of an unresponsive four year old on April 13th, 2021 at 2:08 P.M.

The child was transported from the scene to a local area hospital, where lifesaving measures were attempted but were unsuccessful. The child was then pronounced deceased.

The child has been identified as Ma'Lay Dewitt.

The police department launched an investigation into the death of Dewitt after detectives were suspicious of the circumstances surrounding the case.

"We did notice that the child did have injuries on her body," said Jason Garlock, Detective Sergeant with the Lima Police Department. "That's why she was transported to Lucas County for an autopsy so a thorough examination can be taken care of."

One suspect has been arrested. Romiere Hale, 21-years-old of Lima, is being held at the Allen County Jail. Hale is being held on a charge of Child Endangerment.

"He was a household member at the time, so of course with situations like this those are the people that we speak with first of all - the household members," said Garlock.

The mother of the child was also interviewed on scene. Injuries were also found present on her body.

"She had sustained some injuries that were indicative of possible abuse," said Garlock. "Those were investigated as well."

Dewitt's body has been taken to the Lucas County Coroners Office, where an autopsy is scheduled. Additional charges could be forthcoming pending the findings of the autopsy.

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Two warrants have been filed against a Lima man and woman after the death of a four year old.

One suspect was then arrested. Romiere Hale, 21-years-old of Lima, is being held at the Allen County Jail. Hale was a member of the household.

The Allen County Prosecutors Office has now authorized a Murder warrant on Hale. Another warrant for Felony Endangering Children was issued on 23-year-old Lima resident Stayce Riley, who is the mother of Dewitt.

Dewitt's body was sent to the Lucas County Coroner for an autopsy, where it was found her injuries were caused by blunt force trauma.

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[Sejanus]

Repulsive pustules.

Took me a moment to realize it was Lima, Ohio.

 

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[Brillig]

She was willing to let that pimple faced buffoon beat her precious daughter to death, and to beat her up as well?!?

 

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@Brillig

Snuffaluffagus looking bitch

 

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A Lima woman whose 4-year-old daughter died last month of abdominal injuries after suffering what investigators say was a severe beating has been indicted on a charge of involuntary manslaughter.

Her live-in pussy pounder faces charges of murder, involuntary manslaughter and endangering children for allegedly causing the death of My'Laya Dewitt and also for inflicting injuries on the young girl's brother.

Stayce Riley, 23, Ma'Laya's mother, was indicted earlier this week by an Allen County grand jury on a first-degree felony charge of involuntary manslaughter and a single count of child endangering.

Romiere Hale was indicted by the grand jury on single counts of murder, an unclassified felony, and involuntary manslaughter, a felony of the first degree. The grand jury also returned indictments on eight counts of endangering children.

Hale's bond was set at $1 million.

Officers from the Lima Police Department were dispatched shortly after 2 p.m. on April 12 in reference to a report of an unresponsive child. Upon their arrival, officers located the 4-year-old inside the residence. The child was transported to a local hospital, where medical personnel attempted life-saving measures but were unable to revive her.

Initial reports from the Lucas County Coroner's Office, where an autopsy of the young girl was conducted, indicated DeWitt died of "severe abdominal injuries ... that were about a week old," LPD Detective Sean Neidemire testified during a hearing in municipal court on Tuesday for Romiere Hale, Riley's 21-year-old live-in boyfriend. He has been charged with murder in the child's death.

Hale told investigators he had disciplined My'Laya by hitting her in the stomach around April 3, the detective said. He said Riley told investigators that her daughter "was not feeling well" in the week before she was found unresponsive.

Even Hale's own attorney seemed to concede his client played a role in the girl's death.

"This is a horribly-gone-wrong case of discipline that should have been handled in a different way," attorney Kenneth Rexford said during the preliminary hearing.

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The attorney for a Lima woman charged with involuntary manslaughter and child endangerment in the death of her daughter is seeking to have statements she made to police stricken from evidence in the case.

Stayce Riley, 28, charged in the April death of 4-year-old Ma’laya DeWitt, appeared briefly in Allen County Common Pleas Court on Friday.

Attorney Steve Chamberlain, in a motion filed this summer, alleges police failed to properly advise Riley of her constitutional rights before conducting a pair of interviews at the Lima Police Department. LPD Detective Sean Neidemire took the witness stand during Friday’s hearing and said Riley was not under arrest at the time of the interviews and could have left at any moment.

“In viewing the recordings … it is clear the defendant is not in custody at the time of the interviews,” prosecutors wrote in their response to Chamerlain’s motion.

Prosecutors also noted that Riley was able to speak with family members, some of whom were in the interview room during Neidemire’s interview.

“If defendant has been in custody she would not have been permitted to have family in the interview room or been permitted to talk or text people on her mother’s telephone. … The evidence will show at each interview of the defendant conducted by Detective Neidemire (that) the situation was nonthreatening and non-confining and that defendant was not in custody, therefore Miranda warnings were not required.”

Copies and transcripts of interviews conducted by Neidemire on April 12 and April 14 were submitted for review by Judge Terri Kohlrieser, who will rule on the motion at a later date.

Ma’laya Dewitt died April 12 of abdominal injuries after suffering what investigators say was a severe beating at the hands of Romiere Hale, Riley’s 21-year-old live-in boyfriend at the time.

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A Lima man will spend at least 18 years in prison for the murder of his girlfriend's 4-year-old daughter and the abuse of her 7-year-old son.

Romiere Hale, 22, pleaded guilty to and was sentenced for murder and child endangerment Friday afternoon. He will spend 18 years to life in prison. Allen County Prosecuting Attorney Jurgen Waldick said Hale struck Ma'Laya Dewitt in the abdomen and head.

Waldick said according to experts, the abdominal injury caused a portion of the girl's pancreas to rupture, which caused her intestines to fuse. She lost the ability to eat from April 3, 2021 to April 12, 2021, when she died.

Jim Owen, Hale's attorney, said at Hale's request, he consulted a forensic pathologist, who said the girl died from a pneumonia infection that was treatable. He said her death was part of a pattern of abuse in a "drug-fueled environment."

Hale said he didn't know what to say about what he did.

"I take full responsibility for this situation," Hale said.

Hale's girlfriend and the children's mother, Stayce Riley, is set to sit for a jury trial on Nov. 7 on charges of endangering children and involuntary manslaughter.

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How hard do you have hit a little 4 year old girl to rupture her pancreas, that’s horrible! Little MaLaya was in terrible pain and they let her lay there! Curses on both of them, worthless scraps of putrid skin! I hope they have an absolute miserable stay in the pen!

 

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A Lima woman charged with involuntary manslaughter and child endangerment for her alleged involvement in the death of her four-year-old child has rejected a second plea agreement from prosecutors.

Stayce Riley, 25, rejected the offer from prosecutors in Allen County Common Pleas Court on Tuesday which asked Riley to plead guilty to both charges in exchange for the state’s agreement not to ask the court for a 10-year sentence, the suggested prison term outlined in a previous plea offer from prosecutors.

The Allen County grand jury indicted Riley nearly two years ago on one count of involuntary manslaughter, a first-degree felony, and one count of child endangerment, a third-degree felony, for Riley’s alleged involvement in the death of her four-year-old daughter, Ma’Laya Dewitt.

The toddler died of abdominal injuries on April 12, 2021, after what investigators say was an aggressive beating at the hands of Riley’s former boyfriend Romiere Hale, who was living with the family at the time.
Hale pleaded guilty in October to murder and child endangerment, receiving a sentence of 18 years to life in prison.

Riley faces a possible prison term of 22 to 33 years in prison if convicted on both counts of involuntary manslaughter and child endangerment.

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I hope not taking the plea comes back to bite her in the ass.

 

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Allen County Judge Terri Kohlrieser handed down a sentence Friday of at least 13 and a half years and up to 18 and a half years to Stayce Riley, 25, after she pleaded guilty in July to involuntary manslaughter and child endangerment for her part in the death of Ma'Laya Dewitt, her 4-year-old daughter, over two years ago.

Kohlrieser said that the sentence was not mandatory, but that Riley still deserved the sentence for neglecting to seek treatment for Dewitt before her death, which her former boyfriend Romiere Hale pleaded guilty to in October 2021.

"I have no doubt that Miss Riley was broken and those are the tough cases for this court," she said in her decision. "But she also wasn't raised under a rock. And she clearly, at some point, had an idea of how to care for her child."

Prosecutor Kyle Thines, calling for the maximum sentence, said that Riley's inaction after observing days of injuries to her daughter caused by Hale's beatings proved her responsibility.

"Hale disciplined Miss Riley's kids with beatings, did not work and maintained a K2 addiction," he said. "An Apollo Career Center student reported hearing the beatings while working on a neighboring apartment and these actions were known to the defendant, but she continued to leave her kids in the care of this person. She took the victim to the doctor for ailments leading up to this incident, but even when they observed days of injuries, they did not again until she died."

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"While you did not strike a blow, you assisted in killing Ma'Laya," she said to Riley. "The law does not allow us to torture criminals, but that's what Ma'Laya endured: a week of torture."

Hale was sentenced to 18 years to life in prison for murder and child endangerment following an investigation by the Lima Police Department that found that Dewitt suffered severe abdominal injuries after finding the child unresponsive in their Elizabeth Street residence.

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